Instagram Teen Accounts With Enhanced Safety Features for Younger Users Launched

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Teen Accounts With Enhanced Safety Features for Younger Users Launched

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Teen Accounts were announced on Tuesday as the latest attempt to keep younger users safe on the Meta owned photo and video sharing platform. The new Teen Accounts include protections that are enabled by default and only users above the age of 16 will be able to reduce the degree of safety extended to their

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account. Parents or guardians will also see who has been messaging their teenagers over a seven-day ******* and set daily time limits or block the app from being used for a particular duration.

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Teen Accounts Introduced With Default Restrictions

According to Meta, the new Teen Accounts for

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will be enabled by default for teenagers on the platform, forcing them to use private accounts. This means that users under 18 will have to manually approve each person who sends them a follower request.

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will only allow teens to receive messages from people they are connected to or accounts that they already follow. Similarly, they can only be mentioned or tagged by an account they follow, while the Hidden Words feature will filter out the unwanted comments from comments and messages.

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Parental controls for

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Teen Accounts
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Sensitive content restrictions — a feature available to all users on

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— will be set to the most restrictive setting, filtering out violent videos or ones that promote cosmetic procedures from the Explore and Reels sections, according to the company. 

Sleep mode will be turned on by default between 10pm and 7am, muting notifications and messages. This is a feature that can also be enabled on any account on

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. Meanwhile, a reminder will be shown to teenagers after using the app for over an hour. 

Improved Parental Controls for Teen Accounts 

Parents can also opt to receive more insights into their teenagers’ time spent on

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, via the supervision feature on the app. It will show who the younger users have messaged over the past week (this includes reactions and replies to stories and notes) without displaying the actual message content.

The service will also show parents an overview of the content topics chosen by a teenager on

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. Usage timers can also be set on the app, blocking access after a specified time limit. On the other hand, parents can also block

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use during a specific time *******, according to the company.

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Teen Accounts Rollout Timeline

The company

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that teenagers in Australia, Canada, the ***, and the US who sign up for

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will now be placed into Teen Accounts, while users under the age of 16 who already have an account will be moved into the new experience next week. Younger users in the EU will be switched to Teen Accounts later this year and other regions will follow in January 2025.

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